Air Peace offers to evacuate stranded Nigerians in Sudan

Air Peace offers to evacuate stranded Nigerians in Sudan

 

Air Peace says it is willing to evacuate Nigerians currently stranded in war-torn Sudan.

Chairman of Air Peace, Mr Allen Onyema, said all Nigerian students and others currently stranded in Sudan urgently need help.

He said the airline was prepared to airlift them back home without any payment.

He spoke on the issue with aviation journalists on Sunday night in Lagos.

Onyema, however, gave a condition that Air Peace would only evacuate the stranded Nigerians if they could be moved to a neighbouring country.

He said that Sudan’s airspace had been closed for civil aviation flights.

Air Peace in 2019, deployed flights to evacuate Nigerians from South Africa amid raging xenophobic attacks in the country which threatened many Nigerians.

Onyema said he was compelled to help because Nigeria could not afford to lose its citizens in that country.

He stressed that everything must not be left to the government alone, especially as the situation called for an immediate action.

Onyema said, “Again, Air Peace is willing to evacuate Nigerians stranded in Sudan free of charge if the government can get them to a safe and secure airport in any of the neighbouring countries bordering Sudan.

“Everything must not be left to the government and the government alone. It will be a privilege and honour of tremendous pride that we will be out there to give every Nigerian stranded in Sudan a sense of pride and oneness in their country.

“We are very ready to do it immediately. No time wasting. Any action that would promote national pride, national cohesion, peace and unity, we are for it.”

 

Air Peace offers to evacuate stranded Nigerians in Sudan